Earnest: A Gov’t Shutdown ‘Pretty Embarrassing’ if You Control All Branches

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EARNEST: " What has always been true about these kinds of budget negotiations, even when President Obama was in office, when Republicans had the majority in Congress, they always required Democratic votes. The fact of the matter is there are not going to be a bunch of bills to pass with any Democratic votes as long as this funding for the border wall is going to be included in it. They were in a catch-22. The one thing I have to give him credit for, I’m glad he climbed down from his wall proposal on Tuesday morning as opposed to waiting until Friday night to do it. This is the best possible way to try to avoid a government shutdown which obviously would be pretty embarrassing if you’re in control of the House, Senate and White House and on your 100th day in power, the government shuts down? Not going to inspire a lot of confidence."